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Fast and Furious update: DOJ to shuffle ATF director Kenneth Melson
Michelle Malkin ^ | 8/30/11 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 08/30/2011 9:15:18 AM PDT by Nachum

Both Fox News and the WSJ are out with breaking news about the corruptocracy’s latest dance of the lemons. In the wake of the ongoing Fast and Furious scandal, ATF acting head Kenneth Melson will be shuffled around until the heat dies down…

The acting director of the Justice Department division caught up in a firearms trafficking scandal is being removed from his post, sources told Fox News on Tuesday.

Kenneth Melson, who heads the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, will be reassigned elsewhere in the Justice Department. An announcement is expected late Tuesday morning.

The decision comes in the wake of the embarrassing scandal connected with Operation Fast and Furious. The program tracked illegal gun sales, but has come under federal and congressional investigation after weapons linked to Fast and Furious were found at the scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent’s murder last year.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atf; atfe; doj; fast; furious; shuffle
Do the hustle....
1 posted on 08/30/2011 9:15:20 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

Song of the moment:

Do the Hustle!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFz2WkVAk38


2 posted on 08/30/2011 9:18:03 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Follow the trail into the inner sanctum of the DOJ.


3 posted on 08/30/2011 9:23:43 AM PDT by Doc Hunter
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To: Nachum
Did Ken have a favorite horse?


4 posted on 08/30/2011 9:25:16 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: Nachum

DOJ/BATFE circling the wagons? Seems we just had three district BATFE managers shuffled last week, and now Melsom.

Issa, Grassly getting close?


5 posted on 08/30/2011 9:33:53 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!
6 posted on 08/30/2011 9:40:57 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Nachum

Can you say ‘Tell All’ books in the making?

/Or is he going to suffer the Air Force personnel that pursued the Obama background too close and had an accident?


7 posted on 08/30/2011 9:43:48 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Or is he going to suffer the Air Force personnel that pursued the Obama background too close and had an accident?

Please elaborate. Thanks


8 posted on 08/30/2011 10:04:28 AM PDT by Josephat
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To: Sir Napsalot
/Or is he going to suffer the Air Force personnel that pursued the Obama background too close and had an accident?

What was that?

9 posted on 08/30/2011 10:23:11 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Joe Brower

It goes all of the to 0bama!!

Be Ever Vigilant!!


10 posted on 08/30/2011 11:53:55 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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